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Date:      Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:16:15 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r211176 - in head/sys: amd64/amd64 i386/i386
Message-ID:  <4C62DADF.1000202@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201008111051.o7BApRp4028538@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201008111051.o7BApRp4028538@svn.freebsd.org>

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Attilio Rao wrote:
> Author: attilio
> Date: Wed Aug 11 10:51:27 2010
> New Revision: 211176
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/211176
> 
> Log:
>   IPI handlers may run generally with interrupts disabled because they
>   are served via an interrupt gate.
>   
>   However, that doesn't explicitly prevent preemption and thread
>   migration thus scheduler pinning may be necessary in some handlers.
>   Fix that.
>   
>   Tested by:	gianni
>   MFC after:	1 month

Actually that does prevent preemption if you do not call any code that 
would schedule a thread.  I think this change is all safe to revert.

-- 
John Baldwin



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